CAMBRIDGE, MASS. — NKF has arranged the sale of an office and retail building located at 515 Massachusetts Ave. in Cambridge. S-BNK Cambridge LLC sold the asset to an undisclosed buyer for $30.1 million, or $649 per square foot. Santander Bank currently fully leases the 46,350-square-foot property. Geoffrey Millerd, Justin Smith, Paul Penman and Christian Brannelly of NKF represented the seller in the deal.
BOSTON — Valencia Realty Capital has arranged $6.5 million in refinancing for a two-story, mixed-use building located at 580 Chelsea St. in Boston’s East Boston neighborhood. The 90,000-square-foot property features clear heights as high as 30 feet and is the closest warehouse and office facility to Boston Logan International Airport’s tarmac. Boston-based Valencia Realty secured the financing, which features a 30-year amortization schedule, for the undisclosed borrower.
CAMBRIDGE, MASS. — DoubleTree Suites by Hilton Boston – Cambridge has completed a $4 million renovation to the guest suites. The renovation will introduce the brand’s modern suite concept, Urban Bed, to the Boston market. Each of the 170 two-room Urban Bed suites offer travelers a flexible living space with a full-size pull-down bed that can be utilized on demand. Unlike a sofa bed, the Urban Bed does not fold, providing additional guests the same comfort of a standard DoubleTree Suites by Hilton bed. Additionally, the suites feature a microwave, refrigerator and coffeemaker in the living room, as well as a separate bedroom with a king-sized bed. Other renovations include upgrades to the remaining 138 guest rooms, including King Bed guest rooms with balconies, standard two-room King Suites, two-story Loft King Suites and the Presidential Suite. Additionally, the property’s Scullers Jazz Club was renovated to increase its capacity to 200 seats per show.
CAMBRIDGE, MASS. — Alexandria Real Estate Equities is developing an office and laboratory project at 100 Binney St. in Cambridge. Slated for delivery in the fourth quarter, the property will feature 431,000 rentable square feet of office and laboratory space. The project is 100 percent pre-leased. The tenant roster includes Facebook, Bristol-Myers Squibb Co., Foghorn Therapeutics, Sigilon Therapeutics, Tango Therapeutics and TCR2 Therapeutics. Additionally, the company is pre-leasing for 399 Binney Street, a 164,000-square-foot ground-up development at Alexandria Center at One Kendall Square. Alexandria Real Estate acquired One Kendall Square, a 645,000-square-foot, nine-building life science and technology campus in Cambridge, in 2016.
QUINCY, MASS. — Construction is underway at The Watson, a 140-unit multifamily project on a 1.7-acre site at 116 East Howard Street in Quincy, adjacent to the former Fore River Shipyard. The project involves the demolition of a long-vacant former office building. DellBrook Construction is building the project, with completion slated for July 2018. Eighty-six of the 140 units at the Watson will be workforce housing units, affordable to middle-income households. The workforce housing units will be targeted to households earning at or below 110 percent of the Area Median Income, or $113,740 for a family of four. Twenty-eight of the units will be affordable to households earning at or below 50 percent of AMI, or $51,700 for a family of four. The remaining 26 apartments will be rented at market rates. MassHousing is providing developers, the WinnCompanies and NeighborWorks, a $29.3 million permanent mortgage, $7 million in workforce housing financing from MassHousing’s Opportunity Fund, and $900,000 from the Affordable Housing Trust Fund, which MassHousing manages on behalf of the Massachusetts Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD). The 86 workforce housing units at the Watson represent the largest number of workforce units for a single project financed through MassHousing’s …
BOSTON — LBC Boston has opened Nova Residences, a six-story, 68,000-square-foot building that offers 80 residential units at 1505 Commonwealth Avenue in the Brighton neighborhood of Boston. Ten of the units at the $25 million complex are designated as affordable. Developed, owned and operated by LBC Boston, Nova Residences offers energy-efficient stainless-steel appliances, modern cabinetry, and laundry appliances in each unit. Designed to achieve LEED certification, the building features a fitness center, community/game room, dog grooming station, and on-site management office with package receiving service. Community space extends outdoors with landscaped patios, an 80-car parking lot, and on-site bike storage. The three-year project — LBC Boston’s first residential project in Boston — is part of “Housing a Changing City: Boston 2030,” the city of Boston’s housing plan. The project was 100 percent occupied at opening. Rents range from $1,850 to $3,250 per month, with the unit mix including studios, lofts, and a mix of one- and two-bedroom apartments. The project team included SN Consulting Group as architect; D.F. Pray Contractors, construction manager; RBLA Design, landscape architect; Zade Associates, MEP engineer; Allen & Major Associates, structural engineer; Bohler Engineering, civil engineer; Wayne J. Griffin Electric, electrical contractor; NV5, LEED consultant; and …
NEW YORK CITY — New York City-based REIT Gramercy Property Trust (GPT) has entered into an agreement with a private real estate development and investment company to acquire a nine-property, 2 million-square-foot portfolio of Class A industrial buildings for $331 million. The portfolio is 100 percent leased with a weighted average remaining lease term of 10.4 years. The properties are located in Atlanta; Boston; Charlotte, North Carolina; Chicago; the Inland Empire; Minneapolis; Reno, Nevada; and Spartanburg, South Carolina. More than 80 percent of the NOI for the portfolio is concentrated in four markets (Atlanta, Boston, Chicago and the Inland Empire) and nearly 90 percent of the rent from the portfolio comes from a single tenant. At closing, which is expected to occur by the end of third quarter 2017, GPT will assume $137 million of in-place debt, and will issue $133 million in operating partnership units (OP units) to fund the acquisition. The OP unit price will be based on a 30-day volume-weighted average price as of August 29, 2017, or $29.56 per share. The company is acquiring the portfolio at a 6.3 percent cash capitalization rate. Including this nine-property industrial portfolio, as well as other recently announced transactions under …
WEST YARMOUTH, MASS. — Maplewood Senior Living recently hosted the grand opening for Mill Hill Residence, a Maplewood At Mayflower Place Community. The property offers 75 units of assisted living and memory care in the Cape Cod town of West Yarmouth. The two-story community is located on the former site of the Mill Hill Club. Mill Hill Residence is part of the Maplewood at Mayflower campus, a full-service continuing care retirement community. The architect on the project was Stein Troost Architecture. Maplewood partnered with Perkins Eastman on the interior design, and NEI General Contracting served as the construction partner.
NORTH ANDOVER, MASS. — KeyBank Real Estate Capital has secured a $36.2 million Freddie Mac, fixed-rate loan for Berry Farms, located in North Andover. The Class A, 196-unit multifamily property was completed in early 2016 and is expected to be fully stabilized by September 2017. Dirk Falardeau of Key’s Commercial Mortgage Group arranged the financing with an 11-year term, five-year interest only period and 30-year amortization schedule. The loan was used to refinance existing debt.
BOSTON — G-Tek Labs has leased 30,000 square feet at 28 Damrell Street in South Boston. The company provides hardware workspace, creating an environment that supports development, manufacturing and scaling of electronic devices. The shared workspace will provide access to design software and state-of-the-art equipment, such as 3D printers and pick and place machines. G-Tek Labs, backed by Taiwan-based Gigatek, has begun construction on its two-story space with plans to launch Phase 1 in September. Colliers International’s Ryan Healy and Mike Shakespeare represented G-Tek in their search for space. Attorneys Ku Yoo of Chang & Yoo LLP and James Heffernan of Rich May, PC represented G-Tek Labs in negotiating the lease and other corporate matters. Scott Gredler with Cushman & Wakefield represented the landlord, Damrell Properties, in the transaction.
